Email: eh9@nyu.edu

Evelyn Hernández is a veteran editor and reporter who has covered politics, government, education, immigration, Hispanic communities, the police beat and human-interest stories as a hard-news reporter and feature writer for several U.S. news organizations.

Hernández is a 2007 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where she is taking classes at the Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School of Government, the Graduate School of Education and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Hernández was the Opinion Page editor for five years at El Diario/La Prensa in New York, the nation’s oldest Spanish-language newspaper. She also served on the editorial board and was the paper’s editorial writer. She oversaw major stories including the paper’s coverage of Sept. 11, 2001, and the Democratic and Republican conventions. She first joined El Diario/La Prensa in 2000 as a consulting editor in charge of the paper’s Census 2000 coverage.

She was a reporter at the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, where she covered the police beat at a time when Fort Worth ranked fourth in the nation for its murder rate. She also covered local government and the Mexican-American community. She once spent several days picking onions with Mexican migrant workers to write about the life of migrants along the Rio Grande Valley.

At The Miami Herald, Hernández covered several small cities, Miami city government, immigration and the communities of Little Havana and Coconut Grove, both as a hard news and feature writer. To write about the process of becoming a citizen through marriage, Hernández sat in with a federal immigration service interviewer as she questioned married couples seeking legal status for a spouse.

As a reporer for New York Newsday, Hernandez covered City Hall for three years during the administrations of Edward I. Koch and David N. Dinkins and worked on major stories including the 1990 Happy Land Social Club fire. As an editor she worked on stories including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Crown Heights riots and the city subway crash. The paper won the Pulitzer Prize for the latter.

Hernández is a past-president and founding member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, a past-president and founder of the Florida Association of Hispanic Journalists and a founder of the Dallas-Fort Worth Network of Hispanic Communicators.

Hernández is an adjunct professor at New York University, where she teaches media ethics and reporting. She has also taught at Queens College and Columbia University.

She has won several awards, including awards for outstanding editorial columns from the National Association of Hispanic Publications.

She has appeared regularly as a political commentator on television and radio, including “Inside City Hall” on NY1 (Channel 1).

A Puerto Rican born in Hartford, Conn., Hernández earned her bachelor’s degree from Boston University and her master’s degree from New York University. She lives in New York City with her two daughters.